eskimos

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eskimos

The Inuit

ivory carvers of the far north
2004
Discusses the Inuit Indians, focusing on their tradition of carving ivory. Includes a recipe for a blueberry-topped snowcream, and instructions for carving soap animals and for playing an Inuit game.

Arctic son

1997
A baby boy is given an Inupiat name to go with his English one and grows up learning the traditional ways of the Eskimo people living in the Arctic.

Julie of the wolves

1974
Escaping from an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and is befriended by a wolf pack.

A distant enemy

1997
Fourteen-year-old Joseph, part Yupik Eskimo and part white, struggles to maintain his people's ancient culture as the western world encroaches on his Alaska village.

Life in an Eskimo village

1995
Describes life in Eskimo's villages in the Arctic Circle.

Smiler's bones

2005
Presents a fictionalized account of the life of Minik, a Polar Eskimo taken by explorer Robert Peary, along with Minik's father, Smiler, and four others, to be presented as exhibits to the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Unseen companion

2003
In rural Alaska in 1969, the lives of several teenagers come together while trying to find out what happened to a sixteen-year-old boy who is missing.

Julie of the wolves

1997
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.

Caribou Girl

1998
In northern Alaska an Eskimo girl is transformed into a caribou and travels with the herd in order to save her human family from starvation.

In a different light

growing up in a Yup'ik Eskimo village in Alaska
1996
A study of the contemporary Yup'ik culture in an Alaskan village as seen through the eyes of a typical family.

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